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July 1, 2015
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Francis Poulenc

He may be the most fêted of French composer group Les Six but Poulenc was complex – half monk, half yob with a character full of self-doubt.

June 1, 2015
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Luciano Berio

Berio managed that rare balance of pushing the boundaries of music while still remaining accessible to a wide audience. Explore the colourfully complex world of an avant-gardist who refused to follow the rules.

March 1, 2015
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Gustav Holst

Daniel Jaffé explains how a ramble in the Essex countryside led Gustav Holst the composer of The Planets to a church with a charismatic vicar, who would go on to inspire several works.

January 24, 2015
Classical Music
features

Ten Australian composers you need to hear

Australia's finest musical minds tell us what they think makes our top 10 truly great.

January 1, 2015
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: George Gershwin

He had rhythm, he had music… but for all his catchiness and easy-going charm, Gershwin deserves to be taken much more seriously.

December 1, 2014
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Camille Saint-Saëns

Saint-Saëns has a reputation as the curmudgeon of French music. But his music is also passionate, daring and wickedly funny.

April 1, 2014
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Ernest Chausson

Melancholic French composer Ernest Chausson’s declared wish was “to write one page that enters the heart”. In fact, he wrote many.

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